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THE BOOK OF<br/>
<span class=large>JUDGES</span>
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CHAPTER 2
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An angel rebukes Israel for not serving the Lord—A pattern of future events: A new generation arises that forsakes the Lord and serves Baal and Ashtaroth—The Lord is angry with Israel and ceases to preserve them—He raises up judges to guide and lead them—Canaanites left in land to prove Israel.
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And</span> an angel of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/2/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 31: 16.">break</a> my <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/2/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Abrahamic Covenant; TG Covenants.">covenant</a> with you.
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And ye shall make no <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/2/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 34: 12; Josh. 9: 7.">league</a> with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/2/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Disobedience.">obeyed</a> my voice: why have ye done this?
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Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be <i>as thorns</i> in your sides, and their gods shall be a <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/2/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 23: 33.">snare</a> unto you.
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And it came to pass, when the angel of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
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And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
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And the people <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/2/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 24: 31.">served</a> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, that he did for Israel.
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And Joshua the son of <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/2/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 13: 16; Deut. 34: 9.">Nun</a>, the servant of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, died, <i>being</i> an hundred and ten years old.
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And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.
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And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/2/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Knowledge about.">knew</a> not the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
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&#182; And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and served Baalim:
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And they forsook the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that <i>were</i> round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> to <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/2/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Anger.">anger</a>.
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And they forsook the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and served <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/2/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Sam. 7: 4.">Baal</a> and Ashtaroth.
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&#182; And the <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/2/14a" mark="a" type="C" title="D&C 95: 2 (1-3); D&C 98: 21; TG God, Indignation of.">anger</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/2/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Neh. 9: 27.">spoilers</a> that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
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Whithersoever they went out, the <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/2/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 26: 3 (3-46).">hand</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> was against them for evil, as the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had said, and as the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
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&#182; Nevertheless the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> raised up <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/2/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ruth 1: 1; 2 Sam. 7: 11; Mosiah 29: 41 (41, 44).">judges</a>, which <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/2/16b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Deliverance.">delivered</a> them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
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And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/2/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 37; Alma 7: 6; Hel. 6: 31.">whoring</a> after other <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/2/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 34: 15.">gods</a>, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned <sup>c</sup><a href="judg/2/17c" mark="c" type="A" title="Alma 46: 8; Hel. 12: 4 (2-5).">quickly</a> out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; <i>but</i> they did not so.
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And when the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> raised them up judges, then the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/2/18a" mark="a" type="M" title="The Heb. root means ‘to be sorry,’ ‘moved to pity,’ or ‘have compassion.’; Ps. 106: 45; JST Judg. 2: 18  . . .  for the Lord hearkened because of  . . .">repented</a> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/2/18b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB crushed.">vexed</a> them.
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And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, <i>that</i> they returned, and corrupted <i>themselves</i> more than their <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/2/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 23: 32 (30-32).">fathers</a>, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/2/19b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Stubbornness.">stubborn</a> way.
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&#182; And the anger of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
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I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
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That through them I may <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/2/22a" mark="a" type="C" title="1 Ne. 2: 24 (23-24); TG Test, Try, Prove.">prove</a> Israel, whether they will keep the way of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> to <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/2/22b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Walking with God.">walk</a> therein, as their fathers did keep <i>it,</i> or not.
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Therefore the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
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